Show A wooten got judgment against the dragon con at nephi during the past week the case of A wooten vs the dragon cons mining company in which plaintiff asked tor for 10 ca came m e u up p for trial and after a lengthy i legal e g a i battle which lasted tor for several days the jury brought in a verdict in fa vor ot of the plaintiff awarding dam ages in the sum of 2250 this was a personal injury case wooten hav ing sustained a bad injury to his ankle while employed in III the dragon mine in this district but it is quite evident that the jurors made a ser lous fous mistake in bringing in a verdict against the mining company for or the reason that it was fully established in court that the plaintiff was work ing for an independent contractor by the name of ben long in his instructions to 0 the jury judge mor ris pointed out the tact fact that long who had employed wooten was an independent contractor the evidence showed that the mining company bad had raised the con tract price being paid to long on the ore mined in order that the con tractor might insure his employees and thus protect the company the mining company was depre dented by cheney jensen holmes who have announced their intention of taking the case to the supreme court they feel that the district judge erred in not settling the law points involved instead of leaving them to contuse confuse the jurors |